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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Gary Null”

Null has been also a supporter of touch therapy and magnet therapy, both of which have been long determined to not provide any tangible health benefits.^{[source retracted]}
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The source

Therapeutic touch for healing acute wounds (Pub 4)

Donal P O'Mathuna
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · published May 2016 · cited 5 times by other papers

Retracted Sep 1, 2016

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Where Wikipedia cites it

Gary Null1,046 views a month · open since Nov 5 · editors told
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Case log

Nov 5, 2026FoundFound on Gary Null: the citation is live and nothing near it mentions the retraction.
Nov 6, 2026ReviewedRead by hand (Gary Null). This version of the Cochrane review on therapeutic touch was withdrawn over concerns about the underlying data.
Nov 6, 2026Note postedNote posted on the talk page of Gary Null. See the note.
Nov 6, 2026ReplySlatersteven replied: We don't need it, as there are other sources.

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